Karamoja Apalis

SCI Name:  Apalis karamojae
Protonym:  Eupirnoides karamojae J.E.Afr.UgandaNat.Hist.Soc. no.16 p.25
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Apalis
Taxonomy Code:  karapa1
Type Locality:  Mt. Kamalinga, Karamoja, Uganda.
Author:  van Someren
Publish Year:  1921
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

APALIS
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Bar-throated Apalis A. thoracica) Gr. ἁπαλος hapalos  soft, delicate (cf. Gotch 1981, erroneously suggested Apalis might be from an African name); "[plate 119] APALIS thoracica   ...   [text] APALIS thoracia [sic].  Gorget Warbler.   Family Sylviadæ.  Sub-fam: Sylvianæ.   Genus (?) Apalis.   GENERIC (?) CHARACTER.  General structue [sic] of Prinea, but the bill shorter, the plumage more compact, and the outer toe not connected to the middle as far as the first joint.   ...   Le Plastron Noir. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Af. 3 pl. 123. f. 1 male. 2 fem.  Motacilla thoracia [sic]. Nat. Miss [sic].  22. pl. 969.   THIS is one of the pretty warblers of Southern Africa, discovered by Le Vaillant: it is very common and widely distributed in the interior, but rare near the Cape.   ...   That this bird is of a tenuirostral type, is almost certain; seeing that it is an obvious representation of Motacilla, Pachycephala, Tamatia, Trichas, Charadrius, and many other collared groups: but whether it forms part of the genus Prinea, or represents the tenuirostral genus between that and Culicivora, is very uncertain. We suspect that this latter station is filled by the Taylor-Warblers of India, not one of which is to be found in our public Museums." (Swainson 1832); "Apalis Swainson, 1832, Zool. Illus., ser. 2, 3, p. 119, pl. 119. Type, by monotypy, Motacilla thoracica Shaw and Nodder." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 154). 
Var. Hapalis. 
Synon. Chlorodyta, Drymoterpe, Euprinodes.

karamojae / karamojensis / karamojoensis
Karamoja, Uganda.

SUBSPECIES

Karamoja Apalis (karamojae)
SCI Name: Apalis karamojae karamojae
karamojae / karamojensis / karamojoensis
Karamoja, Uganda.

Karamoja Apalis (stronachi)
SCI Name: Apalis karamojae stronachi
stronachi
Brian William Hemsworth Stronach (1928-1984) Irish/South African cricketer, wildlife lecturer, tsetse officer and game-warden in Tanganyika / Tanzania, collector (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (subsp. Apalis karamojae).